CORE VALUES

COLLABORATION

An appropriate education is provided through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach. Collaboration is essential to optimize the successfulness of a program. A multidisciplinary team might include a teacher, speech therapist, occupational therapist, ABA therapists, psychologist, and parents.

GENERALIZATION

We believe that the most effective teaching strategy is one that generalizes across people, instruction, task materials, and environments. This may include providing service and/or training in home, school, and in community settings.

TRAINING

We are committed to training all those involved with a client. This includes all of the ABA staff, but also any willing participant, such as parents, teachers, babysitters, grandparents, etc. We are also committed to continuously train those who are working with the child to enable them to provide the optimum level of service.

SCAFFOLDING

We believe that an appropriate education scaffolds the child to gain functional abilities at every level and across learning areas based on their current level of functioning. See the section “General Areas of Curriculum Content” for more information about the learning areas that ELCA targets.

BEST PRACTICES

We believe in evidence-based practices, and in providing a safe and supported learning environment for the children and everyone involved.

FAMILY INVOLVEMENT

We support parent education and training, encouraging involvement of the whole family (sometimes even including siblings) in generalization of the program and behavior intervention plans.

INDIVIDUALIZATION

Programs are individualized to the specific learning style, needs, and strengths of the child. Curriculum is modified and regularly added to adjust for the unique learning and behavioral style of the clients we serve. We pride ourselves on unique and innovative programming which fills the gaps that are so common in children on the spectrum.